单词 | bush-ranger |
释义 | bush-ranger|ˈbʊʃˌreɪndʒə(r)| [f. bush1 9 + ranger.] An escaped convict who took refuge in the Australian ‘bush’; a criminal living in the bush, and subsisting by robbery with violence.
1817Sydney Gazette 25 Jan., Robberies by the banditti of bush-rangers on Van Dieman's Land. 1826Gentl. Mag. July XCVI. ii. 69/2 Van Diemen's Land papers and private letters are full of details of atrocities by the bush-rangers (escaped convicts). 1852West Tasmania II. 130 The bushrangers at first were absentees [convicts] who were soon allured or driven to theft and violence; so early as 1808 by systematic robbery they had excited feelings of alarm. 1869Parkman Discov. Gt. West xxvii. (1875) 389 His little garrison of bush-rangers greeted them with a salute of musketry. |

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